The Architects' Roster, 1946-53

The AIA Archives has Architects Roster Questionnaires for over a thousand firms. All have been scanned (including low-resolution copies of photos if they exist). The list below is arranged by state and city. Not all AIA chapters participated in the program. To view the questionnaires, click on the firm name, then click on Architects' Roster Questionnaire under Archival Holdings in the firm's record.

Alabama    Arizona    Arkansas    California    Colorado    Connecticut    Delaware    District of Columbia    Florida    Georgia    Hawaii
Illinois    Indiana    Iowa    Kansas    Kentucky    Louisiana    Maine    Maryland    Massachusetts    Michigan    Minnesota    Mississippi    Missouri
Montana    Nebraska    Nevada    New Hampshire    New Jersey    New Mexico    New York    North Carolina    North Dakota    Ohio    Oklahoma    Oregon
Pennsylvania    Rhode Island    South Carolina    Tennessee    Texas    Utah    Vermont    Virginia    Washington    West Virginia    Wisconsin
Canal Zone    Puerto Rico    Mexico

About the Architects' Roster

Established in 1946 on the recommendation of the AIA Committee on Architect and Government Relations, the "Architects' Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Public Works" was intended to help the private architect get federal work. Questionnaires were sent to all registered architects in the United States, and review committees were established to judge the qualifications of those answering the questionnaires. The qualified list was available to government agencies involved in building programs.

Almost immediately, in 1947, the "Register" was abandoned in favor of a simple "Roster," maintained as "an accurate record of the background and achievements of the members of the architectural profession." Individuals or firms wishing to do federal work could check the appropriate blank of the questionnaire, but the Committees of Review would no longer judge the qualifications of the architects, only substantiate the accuracy of statements made on the form.

By the time of the 1953 roster this attempt, too, had been abandoned, and forms carried the disclaimer, "The American Institute of Architects assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of statements made in this questionnaire. The obligation to maintain this record as a current description of an architectural firm rests with the firm..."

The portions of the Roster which survive in the AIA Archives are a valuable source of documentation for the profession prior to 1953.

--by Tony Wrenn, HAIA, former AIA Archivist, text from 1982 exhibit catalog

Alabama

Auburn

      Keith G. Reeve, Architect (firm)     1946, 1953
   Birmingham
      Earl O. Murray (firm)     1946
      Pembleton & Mims, Architects (firm)     1953
      John W. Powers, Jr. (firm)     1946
      Jack B. Smith (firm)     1946
      Warren, Knight & Davis (firm)     1947, 1949, 1953
   Mobile
      Harry Inge Johnstone, Architect (firm)     1946
   Montgomery
      Clyde C. Pearson & Farrow L. Tittle, Architects, John H. Hancock & Parker A. Narrows, Associates (firm)     1946
      Sherlock, Smith & Adams, Inc. (firm)     1946, 1953
   Opelika
      William N. Womelsdorf (firm)     1946
   Tuscaloosa
      Don Buel Schuyler, Architect (firm)     1946, 1953

Arizona

Phoenix
H. H. Green, Architect (firm) 1953

Arkansas

Little Rock
Wittenberg, Delony and Davidson—Architects-Engineers (firm) 1953

California

Colorado

   Colorado Springs
      Earle A. Deits (firm)     1953
   Denver
      Atchison & Kloverstrom - Architects (firm)     1953
      Alfred Watts Grant (firm)     1946
      Byron Hale Kaufman (firm)     1946
      G. Meredith Musick (firm)     1953
      C. Francis Pillsbury (firm)     1946
      Harlan E. Rathbun (firm)     1953
      Smith & Hegner (firm)     1953
   Greeley
      Sidney G. Frazier (firm)     1946

Connecticut

   Bridgeport
      Fred C. Anderson (firm)     1946
      Asheim and Wilkins (firm)     1946
      Joseph E. Garrick (firm)     1946
      Jesse James Hamblin (firm)     1946
      Toby Vece (firm)     1946
   Danbury
      Walter J. Campbell (firm)     1946, 1949, 1953
      Frank A. LaCava (firm)     1946
   Darien
      Larch C. Renshaw, Architect (firm)     1946
   Essex
      Robert Irving Carter (firm)     1946, 1953
   Fairfield
      Victor L. Civkin (firm)     1946
   Greenwich
      Talcott & Talcott (firm)     1946
   Hartford
      Hollis W. Kincaid (firm)     1953
      Henry F. Ludorf (firm)     1946
      H. Hilliard Smith (firm)     1946
   Kent
      Heathcote M. Woolsey (firm)     1946
   Middletown
      Seb. J. Passanesi (firm)     1946
   Naugatuck
      F. Alton Clark (firm)     1946, 1953
   New Haven
      Harrison E. Baldwin (firm)     1946
      Carl R. Blanchard, Jr. (firm)     1946, 1953
      Leo F. Caproni (firm)     1947
      Harold H. Davis (firm)     1946
      Robert Willard DeGroat (firm)     1953
      Douglas Orr (firm)     1946, 1954
   New London
      Arthur Deimel (firm)     1946
      Grieshaber & Neilan (firm)     1946
      James F. Neilan (firm)     1953
      Payne & Keefe (firm)     1946
   Oakville
      Fred Jackson (firm)     1946
   Shelton
      Walter John Skinner (firm)     1953
   Southpark
      Julian A. Fay (firm)     1953
   Stamford
      William J. Provoost (firm)     1946
      Sherwood, Mills & Smith (firm)     1953
      Gustave E. Steinback (firm)     1946, 1947, 1953
   Waterbury
      Louis A. Walsh (firm)     1946
   West Hartford
      Warren H. Ashley (firm)     1953
      Louis J. Drakos (firm)     1953
   Wilton
      Louis Gelders (firm)     1953

Delaware

   Rehoboth Beach
      Wilbur S. Corkran (firm)     1946, 1953
   Wilmington
      E. William Martin (firm)     1946
      Massena & duPont (firm)     1946, 1953
      Robinson, Stanhope & Manning (firm)     1946
      Stanhope & Manning, Architects (firm)     1953
      G. Morris Whiteside 2nd (firm)     1946

District of Columbia

Florida

   Coral Gables
      Leroy K. Albert (firm)     1946
      Howard B. Knight (firm)     1946      Walter R. Shiner (firm)     1946   Daytona Beach      Griffin & Gomon (firm)     1955      Harry M. Griffin (firm)     1946   Delray Beach      Pope & Blake (firm)     1946   Fort Myers      Bail, Horton & Associates (firm)     1946   Ft. Lauderdale      Gamble, Pownall & Gilroy (firm)     1953      Morton T. Ironmonger (firm)     1947, 1953      Macneir & Dykema (firm)     1946   Jacksonville      A. Eugene Cellar (firm)     1953      Reynolds, Smith & Hills, Architects and Engineers (firm)     1946, 1953   Lake Wales      Jesse H. Shelton (firm)     1946   Miami      Alfred Browning Parker (firm)     1953      Igor B. Polevitzky (firm)     1946      Edwin T. Reeder (firm)     1946      M. Tony Sherman Associates (firm)     1953      Robert Fitch Smith (firm)     1946, 1949, 1955      Robert Law Weed & Associates (firm)     1953   New Smyrna Beach      Ray S. Blinn (firm)     1946   Ocala      Duncan & Duncan (firm)     1953   Ormond Beach      Walter K. Smith, Jr. (firm)     1947   Palm Beach      Howard Chilton, Architect (firm)     1953      Emily & Harold Obst (firm)     1953      John Stetson & Associates (firm)     1953   Panama City      Norman P. Gross (firm)     1946   St. Petersburg      Wm. B. Harvard, Architect (firm)     1953      Architectural Offices of Archie G. Parish & Robert B. Crowe (firm)     1953   Tallahassee      Prentiss Huddleston (firm)     1946      Herbert D. Mendenhall (firm)     1946   West Palm Beach      L. Phillips Clarke & Associates (firm)     1946   Winter Park      Jas. Gamble Rogers II (firm)     1953